Diamond Quote by Natalie Goldberg

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

— Dana Gioia

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but…

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

— Jose Marti

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you…

— Socrates

“Poetry is both; enlightenment and wisdom.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers…

— Plato

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

— R. S. Thomas

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman